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After losing almost 70 medium and large-caliber artillery pieces and almost all field reserve artillery pieces, the Japanese Sixth Division was like a completely enraged bald-tailed dog, brewing crazy revenge.

The next day, the originally planned attack began. In the first wave of the offensive, the Japanese army dispatched the 45th Regiment and a reinforcement group. The total number of people was greater than that of the Third Regiment after counting supporting artillery and other ancillary troops.

Although the Japanese army did not have armored vehicles to clear the way this time, nor did they have earth-shattering medium and long-range artillery support, they did use a large number of aircraft. Nearly forty aircraft flew crazily over the third regiment, launching a battle rarely seen in modern air battles.

A desperate struggle between the air force and ground anti-aircraft fire.

The Japanese planes dive-bombed and strafed the ring fortification belt almost desperately, causing great losses to the artillery battalion of the third regiment, and the Japanese army left behind the wreckage of fourteen fighter planes.[

After a tragic victory, the Japanese army finally removed the air defense positions on the central position and began to launch a brazen attack.

The Japanese army's attack was still the same. Except for the lack of medium and long-range artillery support, several fire teams attacked in skirmish lines when the wing attacked. The wing had an artillery team, four infantry guns, and four mountain cannons.

Each Japanese team has a machine gun fire team, carrying two light machine guns, and a cannon throwing team carrying two cannons, which are used to fill the heavy firepower gap in the 200-meter range between mortars and grenades.

On the front line that was several miles long, one could see the Japanese troops rushing from the opposite side, and the pressure on the front line was like a taut string.

The Japanese army consisted of the same old types, including infantry artillery, machine guns, grenade launchers, and rifles. After these items went into battle, they were also suppressed in all directions by the soldiers of the third regiment.

Although the new anti-aircraft artillery suffered heavy losses, the hunting-mounted infantry artillery of the Southwest Army escaped because of its small size and was easy to hide in hidden artillery holes. It was supported by the heavy firepower of the infantry artillery that was almost directly aimed within a kilometer.

The Japanese mountain artillery and infantry artillery were almost suppressed to death. Using this 31-year-old infantry artillery to deal with the Japanese machine gun team and cannon-throwing team was even more miraculous. Often the entire team flew away with one shot.

This is not fiction. If Zhang Shu had been born here, he would have remembered how huge losses the Japanese army caused to the Chinese Army by relying on infantry artillery cannons. At that time, the Chinese Army did not lack heavy firepower such as heavy machine guns, but they often

Not long after the shots were fired, the Japanese infantry artillery or cannon-throwing guns came close and fired, blowing it up into the sky.

But today, the situation is reversed on the battlefield. Often shortly after the light and heavy machine guns of the Japanese supporting team's attack are fired, a cannon or a heavy machine gun of the Ripper will come over. Whether it is firepower density, power or range, the Japanese army's

The weapon happens to be suppressed very tightly.

"Da da da..."

"Hiss, hiss..."

"Boom, boom, boom..."

"Bang, bang, bang..."

The entire battlefield was filled with the sound of guns and artillery. When the Japanese army rushed into a distance of several hundred meters, the infantry from both sides exchanged fire and finally reached the climax.

It is still an all-round victory for semi-automatic rifles over bolt-action rifles.

After Dai Anlan sent two more companies to support the position, everything looked great, except for one problem.

"Report, our 'medicine' reserves are running low."

Pu Renyi, the logistics officer of the regiment, ran over to report this unpleasant incident to Dai Anlan. Dai Anlan was watching the offensive and defensive battles on the firing line with a telescope. When he heard the news, he couldn't help but punched him hard.

On the bunker wall.

"How long it can be used depends on the current combat intensity."

"It can only last until dark at most."[

During the emergency departure of the third regiment, anti-aircraft artillery guns accounted for a considerable proportion of the logistics supplies, and semi-automatic rifles were consumed at a relatively fast rate. After three days of fighting, the medicine and baggage that accompanied the army's departure were replenished in the first two days.

The "medicine" that was taken once was almost used.

After all, the Air Force has to transport the main force of the Third Division and the necessary equipment needed to build Daxing Airport. The entire transportation capacity is very tight. Although the Taiyuan North Airport can be used by the Southwest Air Force, it is still small in scale.

In further emergency expansion, logistics will become difficult.

Dai Anlan thought about it carefully. The current Japanese offensive was very fierce. The third regiment must hold on until dark because the two divisions of the Kuomintang were about to arrive on the battlefield. One of the two divisions was a first-class division and the other was a first-class division.

Although the second-class division could not reverse the situation on the battlefield, it could give the Third Regiment and the two divisions of the 18th Route Army a breather.

It can be said that the combat power of the third regiment has not yet been fully deployed, and Dai Anlan does not want to confront the Japanese army head-on with weak firepower and insufficient troops. Therefore, it is necessary to appropriately change tactics.

"Distribute the Japanese weapons collected by each company after cleaning the battlefield for emergency use. I will ask the division headquarters."

Dai Anlan immediately called the headquarters of the 19th Army, which was stationed in Peiping with the 18th Route Army.

"Commander, the army's 'medicine' reserves are running low."

"Keep on holding on. A batch of "drug" supplies will be delivered in the evening. I heard that the Japanese artillery bombardment caused some damage to the anti-aircraft firepower? It's okay. There are twenty anti-aircraft guns in the supply this time. The army

I am afraid that you will suffer the loss of not having fighter support, but I am very willing to do so."

Dai Anlan finally got good news from Chen Jun. The Japanese army definitely didn't expect that the Third Regiment would replenish anti-aircraft artillery overnight. When tomorrow comes, he will definitely give the Japanese a good look.

On May 13, after the attack on the previous day was easily repelled by the Third Regiment, the fully overhauled ship and aircraft units took off again to support the Sixth Division in attacking the Third Regiment in the Southwest of China.

In yesterday's battle, China and Japan engaged in fierce offensive and defensive battles on positions in three directions. In the end, the two divisions of the Kuomintang did not replenish the left-wing position. It was not that the Communist Party was too selfish, but the 18th Division.

The frontal and right-wing positions in charge of the two divisions, including the 19th Division, were breached twice by the Japanese. In the end, the two newly reinforced divisions rushed to replenish the position and were able to hold it.

After a day of fighting, the Japanese army left more than 2,000 corpses in the frontal and right-wing positions, and the wounded were even more serious. However, the Japanese losses were even more severe. With the two divisions using medium and long-range artillery intensively,

Faced with the Japanese offensive tactics, the Kuomintang army was at a loss.

Advanced weapons were also suppressed, and even the 105mm heavy artillery of two divisions were partially destroyed by Japanese aircraft. The Kuomintang divisions, which can only be called well-trained, faced the elite Japanese divisions, although they were only weak in all aspects.

It is a little behind, but this backwardness is amplified in the offensive and defensive battles.

The Japanese army suffered huge losses in front of the Third Regiment's position. The entire left wing position alone caused nearly 2,000 Japanese casualties. The Forty-fifth Regiment was completely crippled. Chiba Koichiro was unfortunately captured when he charged in person.

Battle of Tianjin and Beijing

The highest-ranking Japanese officer captured since the war began. He was previously the Lieutenant Colonel and Chief of Staff who was killed by an unknown gun a thousand meters away from the Chinese position. The remnants of the 45th Infantry Regiment were incorporated into the Sixth Division.

Two complete regiments.

The situation of the third regiment is much better. Although there are casualties, the battle loss ratio is very satisfactory. It is not that Dai Anlan is cold-blooded, but that war is meant to kill people. How to eliminate the most enemies at the minimum cost is the key to

A commander's natural duty.

On May 13, when the Japanese fleet of warships and aircraft flew over Langfang in preparation for a brutal bombing, they were intercepted by two squadrons of Kuomintang fighter jets that suddenly rushed to the battlefield.

Although the fighter planes of the Kuomintang Air Force were lagging behind those of the Japanese army, the fighter planes and bombers still beat the Japanese army to a pulp, and seven or eight old-fashioned bombers were shot down on the spot. According to the original intelligence obtained by the Japanese army, the Chinese Air Force would still be at least three or four days away.

Only then could they enter the battlefield. Unexpectedly, these two squadrons, led by deputy captain Gao Zhihang, caught the Japanese army by surprise.

The left wing position was even more lively. When the Japanese aircraft thought they had completely destroyed the anti-aircraft firepower of the Southwest Regiment and were arrogantly preparing for low-altitude dive bombing and strafing, they were blocked by the anti-aircraft artillery that had been moved into the trenches overnight.

The tragic situation suddenly emerged. The Japanese plane was shot down like a dumpling. The artillery battalion, which had been simmering for a long time, performed exceptionally and shot down nearly half of the dozen or so incoming bombers. The other planes saw that the situation was not good and acted randomly.

’ He threw the bomb, turned around and ran away.

During this day's battle, two Japanese regiments launched a division-level charge that was not afraid of death. Kazuo Hamada personally ordered the "Glory Charge".

However, it was only then that they realized what a big mistake they had made.

The light of death that brought them was none other than Southwest's Ripper machine gun.

In previous battles, this new type of machine gun did not play its full role because the Japanese attack was not as violent as it was on this day.[

Facing the densely packed attacking Japanese troops, the Tearer heavy machine gun finally roared and opened fire.

I saw a bunch of Rippers that were urgently replenished last night being moved into the position. The shooters who were originally in charge of light machine guns switched to operating this kind of heavy machine guns. They were set up on an average of 100 meters in the position.

One stick.

In an instant, there was a dense sound of tearing cloth on the battlefield. The rate of fire, which had been controlled at around 500 rounds in the previous few days of combat, started firing on this day regardless of the loss of the barrel. It was as high as 1,500 rounds per minute.

With its terrifying rate of fire, it took just one minute to mow down the attacking Japanese troops in droves.

The crazy Japanese army has long forgotten how many people were killed by the crossfire of heavy machine guns during group charges by Britain, France and other countries on the European battlefield during World War I. That was a terrifying record of tens of thousands of people being killed in one day. The Japanese army

Forgot, they thought that the Chinese ** team was not the Russian ** team and would definitely collapse in the face of an attack of 7,000 or 8,000 people.

The Third Regiment replenished a lot of "medicine" this time. Although Dai Anlan didn't know why, he could guess that the air force's transportation capacity suddenly increased. After mobilizing nearly two thousand farmers to help carry the "medicine", that day

At night, the firepower configuration of the Third Regiment reached a very scary level, especially artillery of various calibers, light and heavy machine guns. Not to mention anything else, the emergency supply of submachine guns and submachine guns reached a scary level.

Dozens of Ripper-type heavy machine guns recreated the myth of the German army on the European battlefield, inflicting heavy losses on these two regiments. The Japanese army had never seen the Chinese have such high-intensity heavy machine gun firepower, and the aircraft

When the air strikes were ineffective, the Japanese attacking troops who had managed to escape finally began to retreat.

Dai Anlan, who sized up the situation, ordered the entire army to pursue them and killed more than 400 people. In the end, the commander of the Sixth Division managed to escape with less than 4,000 people, and quite a few of them were injured.

When Shirakawa Yoshinori looked like an idiot and held up his gun to cause trouble for Hamada Kazuo, the staff told him that Hamada Kazuo had been shot in two by the Chinese heavy machine gun, and he didn't even have time to snatch the body back.

The entire Sixth Division was wiped out in just one week, with more than 5,000 people wiped out. The Japanese army could not accept this fact for a while. According to reliable intelligence, the third regiment of the Chinese ** team had only about a thousand casualties. Although they

There are trenches that can serve as cover, although their weapons are more advanced, and although almost all the Japanese troops in the two regiments died under heavy machine gun fire on the road to a desperate charge...

The Japanese troops were still in shock.

One regiment of the Chinese was able to block the attack of an infantry division. (The infantry force of the commander of the Sixth Division did not number 20,000, and a considerable part of it was baggage troops, such as artillery.) They were able to block three times the enemy's attack.

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Although the overall loss of 70% of the Japanese army was caused in the "Glory Offensive" on May 13th, it encountered the Chinese's almost abnormal heavy machine gun firepower configuration. The Chinese actually ignored logistics and the way of fighting without regard to the battle and land consumption.

It taught the Japanese army a painful lesson.

In fact, if the Japanese army had been more sensible in their attack, slowed down the pace, and launched repeated "tidal" attacks, the Third Regiment's position would have probably exposed flaws and been breached by the Japanese army. After all, the Japanese army had too much strength.

Advantage.
To be continued...